Eighth Annual PRELUDE Festival Kicks off In NYC

PRELUDE.11 takes as its starting point the dialogue between recent tendencies in theater, dance and visual art performance. For the first time in PRELUDE's history, it will use the James Gallery at the Graduate Center as well as the Martin E. Segal Theatre, enabling this interdisciplinary festival to continue to investigate the resonances between the "white cube" and the "black box."

Invitees include:
Jay Scheib, Temporary Distortion, Sibyl Kempson and Big Dance Theater, Donelle Woolford, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Mac Wellman, Half Straddle, Daniel Fish, Lumberob, Jake Hooker, Elevator Repair Service, Young Jean Lee, Rob Fitterman, Will Holder, Nina Beier, Otso Huopaniemi, Suzanne Bocanegra & Paul Lazar and a host of others, including a new commission from Jackson Pollock Bar (Freiberg, Germany).

Events occur daily from 4pm-10pm, with selected performances loosely based around the following themes:

WE PRESENT A PRESENTATION: performative lectures, theory-installations, and performances within performances.

REPURPOSING: taking preexisting works, events or texts as the basis for new performances.

TEXT AS TEXTURE: creating a musical or performative experience from the materiality of language.

Curated by Claire Bishop (Associate Professor, PhD Program in Art History, CUNY Graduate Center), Rob Marcato (Artistic Line Producer, Signature Theatre Company, NY), HeLen Shaw (Theater critic, Time Out New York) and Frank Hentschker (Executive Director/Director of Programs, Martin E. Segal Theatre Center). Produced by Caleb Hammons (Soho Rep, NY).
www.preludenyc.org

FREE and open to the public. First come, first served.

Location: 365th 5th Ave @ 34th Street (nearest subway Herald Square)

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center at the Graduate Center, CUNY is pleased to present PRELUDE.11, the eighth annual PRELUDE festival dedicated to artists at the forefront of contemporary New York City theatre, dance and visual art performance. PRELUDE will offer over 20 short performances, readings, and open rehearsals-a completely free sneak-peek into the work being prepared for the 2011/12 season, as well as new commissions, and daily panel discussions with artists and performers.

All presentations will be held in the James Gallery and the Segal Center at CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street. The PRELUDE.11 closing night party and selected PRELUDE presentations will be be held on Friday night, 14 October at The Gershwin Hotel, 7 East 27th Street between Fifth and Madison Avenues. The party is presented in collaboration with Suzanne Tremblay as part of the Gershwin Hotel's Fall 2011 Artist Series. All programs are subject to radical change.